Improvement in lining soda-fountains



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Letters Patent No. 69,986, dated October 22, 1867.

IMROVEMENT IN LINING SODA-FOUNTAINS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM GBE, of the` city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Soda-Water Fountains; and I do herebyr declare that the following is a. full, clear,'and. exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference heing had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to a new and improvedmode of lining the east-iron soda-water fountains or ret-Orts, in order to prevent them being acted upon or corroded by their contents.

The accompanying` drawing represents a vertical section of one part of a. fountain or retort, showing my invention, the other port-ion being shown in red, and not bisecteal.

A represents one-*half of a cast-iron soda-water fountain, and B represents the lining thereof, whichis constructed of tin, and malle of such a form that it will iii; snugly within the part A. This tin shell is formed with a flange, a, to fitover the flange of thepzrt A of the fountain or retort. Bot-h of the parts of the fountain or retort are lined with these tin shells, and they are secured together, as usual, by bolts passing through their flanges, b. After the two parts ofthe fon'ntain or retort are bolted together, with* the tin shells or lining within -thcu1,the shells or linings are subjected to hydraulic or other pressure, in order to cause the shells to be pressed snugly against the internal surface of the fountain or retort. The forcing of the water and gas (soda-water) into the fountain or retort under the ordinary pressure employed will probably be suicient for the purpose. In thus pressingr the tin shells or linings against the internal surfaceof the fountain or retort, the shells are very liable to be ruptured at various points, on1 account of the inequalities of the surface against which they are pressed. Th'ese ruptures may be very small, sufficiently soV to escape detection, and still be large enough to admit of the iron fountain or retort being appreciably affected under the action of the soda-water. In order t0 obviatc this difliculty I eloctroplate the tm shells tfter they are subjected to the pressure, the shells being filled with a silver solution, e, and Elie'rlesw'l--d''fawbattify applied as usual, as will be fully understood by referring to the drawing. By this means of clce'trolfilating 'the internalV surfaces of the shells all cracks, crevices, etc., will be filled up, and a coating or lining of silver deposited on the shells. I

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The lining or coating of the interior of soda-water fountains or retorts, with shells of tin'or other suitable metal, subjecting the latter to hydraulic or other pressure `when fitted or adjusted in the fountain or retort, and then eleetroplating them, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

WILLIAM Witnesses:

WM. F. MCNAMARA, g ALEX. E. Roelants.- 

